Before a decision is made whether or not to try an underage person as an adult, an analysis by a professional is required to determine if the person understood the actions as an adult would understand them.

Maybe you’re right, but fortunately that’s not the standard by which we base punishments in our judicial system.

You can’t treat sociopathy.

A defining feature of mental illness, whether you’re talking about APD, schizophrenia, depression, or anything else, is that you can’t choose it.

Actually no. If you wanted to get at something that approximated a colloquial distinction between psychopaths and sociopaths, the closest you could get has nothing to do with a spectrums or violence.

Irrelevant. All kids are kids. We made a decision as a matter of policy, backed by sound science, that crimes committed by kids have to be treated differently. We decided that not only are kids presumed to be redeemable, we won’t even give ourselves the discretion to say that one isn’t. All kids should be given that…

No, I’m not going to “fuck outta here with this ‘she’s just a kid’ horseshit.”

I’m reasonably certain that if I asked 10 laymen for the distinction between the non-medical terms “psychopath” and “sociopath,” 1 would draw your distinction, 3 would say something completely different, and the remaining 6 would say they have no idea.

Yeah, good luck with the whole children deserve harsher punishment stance. Just when I thought I’ve read it all...

There’s no medical distinction between sociopaths and psychopaths. In fact, in the DSM-V, there is no diagnosis for sociopath or psychopath at all. It’s all antisocial personality disorder.

“Let me tell you, those last ten questions are hard,” President Trump said at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting on Thursday, according to Breitbart, which obtained audio of the president’s remarks after the White House press pool was escorted out of the room. “There aren’t a lot of people that can do…

It always bothered me that they tried these two girls as adults.

“Ohhh no. I do not want to see that.”
[Clicks to second picture]
“No, no, no, no, nooooope. I can see how this is gonna be terrible, and that’s enough for me.”
[Clicks to third picture]
“Oh God! It’s exactly what I thought! Why did I do that!”

his month, GM introduced a new fully-autonomous Bolt test vehicle that lacks a steering wheel or any pedals. . . . Fine, but the reports this week again show there’s the potential for serious gaps in what even qualifies as an event that required a human to manually take control of the car. That only means the…

One of the reasons we went off the gold standard was to stabilize the value of our currency. The gold standard produced very little long term inflation, but in the short term, it never stopped being a ridiculous wild roller coaster. The price of gold would double overnight only to drop by 75% the next day.

I’m actually kind of surprised that BillO is having such a difficult time finding his footing. Sure, he was let go from Fox for repeated sexual harassment allegations. But let’s face it, no O’Reilly Republican has made that their line in the sand.

That’s not what he’s saying. If anything, it’s the opposite.

Certain treaties and other international agreements allow courts of one country to recognize judicial decisions of courts of another country. We normally think this is pretty useful for, say, international money laundering cases.

Meanwhile, Apple has been forced to expose the secret slowdown “feature” it had been using to make sure older iPhones don’t explode, removing one of the incentives it had in place for getting people to buy new iPhones.

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